Weapons, and Hand Placement

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@nabiul;160913

It depends on how your weapons system is setup, In mine the weapon is a separate actor with it’s own skeletal mesh. I would add a bone to the weapons skeleton that is parented to the root and is moved to where the left hand is supposed to be. Then in the engine I would add a socket to that bone on all the different weapons and use the same name for all sockets. Then it’s just a matter of getting the socket’s location and putting that value in the two bone IK node.

Hi Nabiul-
Have you had success with this technique? If I use the Two-Bone IK node to IK the left hand to a socket on the weapon, I find that the IK location is always 1 frame behind. To elaborate, we get the EffectorLocation in the event graph, by getting the socket location on the weapon. When the next frame of animation is evaluated, however, the right hand is likely to move, causing the EffectorLocation to no longer be valid. The IK is performed using this stale EffectorLocation. The end result is that as soon as the right hand starts moving, the left hand always lags behind. Any ideas?